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Review of Something to Someone

Something to Someone

Run Boy Run

Sky Island

Rating: ★★★

Run Boy Run is an Americana group from Tucson, Arizona, whose profile was immeasurably enhanced by appearances at the 2009...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2015

Review of Gon’ Boogaloo

Gon’ Boogaloo

CW Stoneking

King Hokum Records

Rating: ★★★★

Australian bluesman CW Stoneking's last album, Jungle Blues, made the international scene sit up and take notice. The mix of...

Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: March/2015

Review of 90 Degrees of Shade

90 Degrees of Shade

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Soul Jazz Records (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★★

This double CD celebrating music found across the Caribbean region is a delight from start to finish. As the excellent...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2015

Review of Tomorrow Will Follow Today

Tomorrow Will Follow Today

Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman

Iscream Music Records

Rating: ★★★

A young man refuses to sleep with his uncle's wife. She stabs herself and blames the boy. His uncle has...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2015

Review of It is Time for You to Return

It is Time for You to Return

Jozef van Wissem

Crammed Discs

Rating: ★

Jozef van Wissem is a baroque lute player and self-styled avant-garde composer who recently came to prominence for his soundtrack...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: March/2015

Review of The Search for Five Finger Frank

The Search for Five Finger Frank

Pete Coe & Alice Jones

Backshift Music (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★

This mammoth set – 27 tracks in all – aims to rescue from obscurity the memory of Leeds folk-song collector...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2015

Review of Movimento

Movimento

Aline Frazão

Ponto Zurca

Rating: ★★

You could say that Aline Frazão is the Mayra Andrade of Angola – a singer who has made a concerted...

Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2015

Review of Tradition 2.1

Tradition 2.1

Korrontzi

ARC Music (CD & DVD)

Rating: ★★

Embedded in ‘Iskitzeko Aldian’, the track right at the heart of this album, is part of a radio broadcast from...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2015

Review of The Art of the Mongolian Yatga

The Art of the Mongolian Yatga

Chinbat Baasankhuu

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

The yatga is a Mongolian zither (similar to a Chinese guzheng or Japanese koto), which Baasankhuu performs confidently upon, whether...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: March/2015

Review of Pancada Motor: Manifesto da Festa

Pancada Motor: Manifesto da Festa

DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar

Far Out Recordings

Rating: ★★

One of Alfredo Bello's passions is to create field recordings of Afro-Brazilian traditions and religious ceremonies. These recordings then serve...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2015

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